In this period of political debate and division among the people, the news media is having a field day. The recent Republican National Convention was advertised like the Super Bowl or a major summer blockbuster on CNN. Despite rarely discussing him in the first place, the major cable networks jumped to talk about how Bernie Sanders “sold himself out” by endorsing Hillary Clinton. All eyes are on Donald Trump's campaign. All of these channels and organizations talk about these political events as if they're reporting on the invasion of Iraq. They refuse to point out the over-the-top, contradictory, and hypocritical statements put out by Trump's supporters and fellow Republicans, and instead want to further divide the viewership. However, there is one news group that is telling it exactly as it is. That group? Trevor Noah and his crew on "The Daily Show."

Fitting in at a single, half-hour timeslot on Comedy Central, "The Daily Show" has always said exactly what had to be said, and didn't waste time, especially when something big was happening in the nation. Most notably, former host Jon Stewart gave a ten-minute monologue following 9/11, then let the rest of the episode be light – because that is what we needed at the time. Fast forward to 2015, and as soon as Stewart was leaving the show, Trump's campaign was starting to kick into high gear. Since taking over as host, Trevor Noah has made the election a major feature of his era. Whenever Trump would speak of building a wall or banning all Muslims and deporting them (or giving them an identifying mark to wear at all times), Noah was among the few who flat-out said that this was a stupid idea. The writers behind the series have pointed out the errors and the fear that the Republican party has been forcing onto the people.

Recently, "The Daily Show" moved their offices for a week to Cleveland to cover the RNC. Using the usual explicit satire, Noah has used his correspondents to show what is really going on inside the Quicken Loans Center. For example, the correspondents walk around the common areas, interviewing the citizens there to support Trump. In one such event, a woman was asked “what does loving your neighbor mean.” She responded that she would unless that neighbor would break into her house and kill her family. When asked what person that might be, she said “Muslims.” In addition, Noah pointed out the fear-mongering within the speeches and groups present and the convention. By showing clips o speeches and showing the lies within, Noah becomes one of the few honest anchors in the cable news network.

Following Chris Christie's kangaroo court style speech, wherein he presented the facts about Clinton and asked the audience if she was guilty. Noah parodied this, standing with his back to the audience, so that everybody would appear in the camera. He spoke of the illegal activities and selfish acts of Christie, and had the audience do the same thing. This act of parody showed how hypocritical the Republican party can be, and presented a truth that the news networks would not say outright. The crowd behind Noah even got into it, not unlike what happened with Christie at the RNC. That night, parody revealed the dangers of a Republican-controlled government in this election. Noah continued to satirize the convention, including Trump's speech towards the end of the week – as he had been the entire campaign.

Unlike the major networks, Noah is not afraid to show the oddities of the current American government. After the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile, Noah explained that yes, all lives do matter, and that can you in fact “be pro-black without being anti-cop.” In that week of constant argument and debate on the three networks, it was Comedy Central that had the real answer to these questions. Noah did not shut down the Black Lives Matter movement with “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter,” because he acknowledged that those are both true – but the reasoning behind those movements is to shut down the BLM movement itself. No other station wished to say that, instead wanting the viewers to go out and argue about it.

Basically, it comes down to parody vs. hard fact. "The Daily Show" has always been an amazing source of news satire, along with it's spin-offs like "The Colbert Report" and "The Nightly Show." When CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC dance around the truths and bring on others to cause arguments that simply take up airtime that could be used to ask the audience to think for themselves, Noah (and with that the previous hosts of the show) instead tears apart the hard shell of American journalism in favor of making people laugh at the absurdities of the current political situation. In the end, our best news commentary comes from a half-hour comedy show that airs an hour to midnight.